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This book has neither the virtue of irony nor deserves the sympathy reserved for the truly mad.

— Peter Greenaway

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Whispering can be a rest from a noisy world of words.

If Good approved of his creature's creation, He breathed the painted clay-model into life by signing His name.

Get the Titanic sailing correctly before you worry about the deck chairs.

Why illustrate a great piece of writing whose very advocacy and evocation and efficacy lies within its very existence as writing?

The pages are so harmonious in their proportion
disharmony in the contents is impossible.

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Reading maketh a full man; conference a ready man; and writing an exact man.

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Albert Pike Morals and Dogma of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry (1871)

There is more than one way to burn a book. And the world is full of people running about with lit matches.

Ray Bradbury Fahrenheit 451 (1953)

People say that life is the thing, but I prefer reading.

Logan Pearsall Smith Afterthoughts (1931)

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